Jeh Johnson: Gun control is now a matter of homeland security. DHS takes over.

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Jeh Johnson: Gun control is now a matter of homeland security. DHS takes over.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday said that gun control is now a critical element of protecting the U.S. homeland and keeping Americans safe.

"We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security," Johnson said in an interview on "CBS This Morning." "We need to do something to minimize the opportunity for terrorists to get a gun in this country."

Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.

I believe that there is something deeper and more sinister at work. Something related to the common misattribution of "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." to Albert Einstein, one of the very best of humanity when it actually comes from an attempt to elevate damaged beings.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.
Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the PDF), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal").

Americans are proud of their anti-intellectualism for their fear of the hard work in study and learning and deep thought. It's easier to see the cause and effect of a sledgehammer than a pen nib, and of a TRUMP than an Einstein.

We must break this cycle and I believe we are in the process of doing just that. It will be a bumpy ride. Keep focused and your eyes on the horizon, look for motion, anything of concern.

The problem is that they cannot reliably identify the terrorists in advance. Orlando proved that. So how could they institute gun control that only impacts terrorists? They cannot so they will try to institute measures that have a chilling effect, or even a ban, for all gun buyers.

They will trot out the security is more important than freedom argument.

They will probably institute new reporting laws for dealers based upon the southwest states multiple rifle sales requirement. It might be something like report all assault rifle sales, giving the Feds the opportunity to define the assault rifle.

We must be vigilant in our monitoring of these threats, we must be swift in responding to these assaults upon our rights and we must be decisive in our arguments against the erosion of our rights and freedom.

Live free or die,
Thundar

Last edited by Thundar; 06-15-2016 at 08:43 AM.

He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to see. Pancho & Lefty

The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us....There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! ...The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, Sir, let it come …………. PATRICK HENRY speech 1776

We must break this cycle and I believe we are in the process of doing just that. It will be a bumpy ride. Keep focused and your eyes on the horizon, look for motion, anything of concern.

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia today on Fox said we have to fix the gun-show loophole where you can buy a gun right off the table without a background check.
If you keep repeating a lie often enough, at some point it will be accepted as true.

Now none dare call it terrorism for fear of offending some snowflake in hell.

so nightmare, what objective evidence do we have, besides the stretch of DM's imagination, this event was done to "achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim." (of course from your favorite internet cite which you edit for)

ipse

I'm only human; I do what I can; I'm just a man; I do what I can; Don't put the blame on me; Don't put your blame on me ~ Rag'n'Bone Man.

Please do not get confused between my personality & my attitude. My personality is who I am ~ my attitude depends on who you are and how you act.

Remember always, do not judge someone because they sin differently than you do!

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

acknowledged as one of the initial founders of cynic philosophy, Diogenes of Sinope, quote...criticized and embarrassed Plato, disputed his interpretation of Socrates and sabotaged his lectures, sometimes distracting attendees by bringing food and eating during the discussions. Diogenes was also noted for having publicly mocked Alexander the Great. unquote Wiki ~ Diogenes of Sinope.

so it appears, the revered words of today were nothing more than actual commentary held over dinner and gatherings, orally repeated and embellished, finally documented where the words became scholarly works until it became Socrates' gospel.

perhaps...now if the lantern could be found, lited, to begin the search again...

ipse

I'm only human; I do what I can; I'm just a man; I do what I can; Don't put the blame on me; Don't put your blame on me ~ Rag'n'Bone Man.

Please do not get confused between my personality & my attitude. My personality is who I am ~ my attitude depends on who you are and how you act.

Remember always, do not judge someone because they sin differently than you do!

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

Read beyond your limited horizons to discover that Platonism (contra Aristotleanism) is the source of much modern ills.

could the possibility exist that someone's perception of another's limited horizons could be skewed by their being mired in history's misinterpretation of ancient tomes translated over the ages by those who did not utter nor scribe them originally.

ipse

I'm only human; I do what I can; I'm just a man; I do what I can; Don't put the blame on me; Don't put your blame on me ~ Rag'n'Bone Man.

Please do not get confused between my personality & my attitude. My personality is who I am ~ my attitude depends on who you are and how you act.

Remember always, do not judge someone because they sin differently than you do!

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

Gun control = people control = power/money to the more elite. Wash, rinse, repeat. We must break this cycle and I believe we are in the process of doing just that. It will be a bumpy ride. Keep focused and your eyes on the horizon, look for motion, anything of concern.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Nightmare

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday said that gun control is now a critical element of protecting the U.S. homeland and keeping Americans safe.

The only type of gun control that ever amounted to a hill of beans is that which makes a person a more discerning, rapid, and accurate shooter.

"We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security," Johnson said in an interview on "CBS This Morning." "We need to do something to minimize the opportunity for terrorists to get a gun in this country."

By far the best way to keep terrorists from getting a gun in this country, Jeh, is to keep the terrorists out of the country. Many countries are banning all Islamic immigration for outstanding reasons, Jeh. Preventing terrorism is their number one reason.

Terrorists don't need guns to terrorize. They've been terrorizing the world for 1,400, mostly without the use of firearms. Preventing them from obtaining guns is a foolish, unobtainable goal.

A proper goal would be ensuring Americans are ready to stop terrorism dead in its tracks.

could the possibility exist that someone's perception of another's limited horizons could be skewed by their being mired in history's misinterpretation of ancient tomes translated over the ages by those who did not utter nor scribe them originally.

ipse

More dead, long dead, white guys who may be the fathers of democracy but are certainly not the fathers of liberty.

I get your point to be sure, but our history is ~3000 years more advanced. Influenced to be sure but far more advanced. Remember, kings had the final say on democracy back in that day.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson.

"Better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer" - English jurist William Blackstone.

It is AFAIK original to me. Compromise is failure on the installment plan, particularly when dealing with so intractable an opponent as ignorance. - Nightmare

More dead, long dead, white guys who may be the fathers of democracy but are certainly not the fathers of liberty.

I get your point to be sure, but our history is ~3000 years more advanced. Influenced to be sure but far more advanced. Remember, kings had the final say on democracy back in that day.

OC, of course you may believe the monarchy was in charge...i would like to throw out an alternative, quote: The early Christian writers Tertullian and Origen mention the existence of a British church in the third century AD and in the fourth century British bishops attended a number of the great councils of the Church such as the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Rimini in 359. unquote. https://www.churchofengland.org/abou...d-history.aspx

the clergy, or pope or soothsayers or sorcerer or favorite concubine had more power at times then the monarch...

ipse

I'm only human; I do what I can; I'm just a man; I do what I can; Don't put the blame on me; Don't put your blame on me ~ Rag'n'Bone Man.

Please do not get confused between my personality & my attitude. My personality is who I am ~ my attitude depends on who you are and how you act.

Remember always, do not judge someone because they sin differently than you do!

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

This is how democracy ends. DHS declares a national security emergency, POTUS approves, gun control begins on a large scale. POTUS becomes dictator for life. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but dang, this is bold stuff coming from a Dept head. You know POTUS fed him that line.

More dead, long dead, white guys who may be the fathers of democracy but are certainly not the fathers of liberty.

I get your point to be sure, but our history is ~3000 years more advanced. Influenced to be sure but far more advanced. Remember, kings had the final say on democracy back in that day.

REPUBLIC!

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Another gift from Bush.
There is no difference between the parties.....socialistic control.

I am not anti Cop I am just pro Citizen.

U.S. v. Minker, 350 US 179, at page 187
"Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many citizens, because
of their respect for what only appears to be a law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their
rights, due to ignorance." (Paraphrased)

This is how democracy ends. DHS declares a national security emergency, POTUS approves, gun control begins on a large scale. POTUS becomes dictator for life. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but dang, this is bold stuff coming from a Dept head. You know POTUS fed him that line.

Or is it how it begins? Do you want a democracy? Not me. I have my own best gov't model ideas. Nothing close to what we have today, anywhere on the globe.